Educational device.



PATENTED APR. 28, 1908.

JLW. BBVANS. EDUCATIONAL DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1907.RENEWED MAR. 30

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unrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. BEVANS, OF GARRETT PARK, MARYLAND.

EDUCATIONAL DEVICE Patented April 28, 1908.

Application filed. April 30, 1907, Serial No. 371,119. Renewed March 30,1908. Serial No. 424,156.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs W. BEVANS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Garrett Park, in the county of Montgomery and State ofMaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEducational Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in educational devices, and theobject is to pro vide a simple and improved device by means of which thealphabet may be taught, together with the formation of words, objects,etc.

\Vith the above objects in view, the invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described, .particularlypointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanyingdrawing, in which Figure 1 is a view of the invention showing one of thecombinations which may be formed; Fig. 2, a view of the reverse sideshowing one of the animals completed, and Fig. 3, an edge view of thedevice.

My invention consists in providing a num ber of sections or plates 1pivoted together by a common pivot 2, and not connected with each otherin any way other than by said pivot.

Each section carries upon one face, a portion of a representation, thatis, a part of a word, namely, a letter of the alphabet, there being onesection or plate for each letter of Placed below the letter is acomplete pictorial representation designed to be indicated by saidletter, and, as shown in the drawing, a verse referring to the pictorialrepresentation.

Each section on its reverse side also carries a portion of arepresentation, shown in the I have shown the portions of the animals soarranged with respect to the letters of the alphabet on the reverse sideof the sections, that when the sections bearing the proper letters of aword indicating an animal are brought into position to spell the Word,the animal will appear complete on the opposite face of the series ofsections employed in spelling the name.

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided aneducational device which is in the form of a book having pivoted leaves,and by means of which the alphabet,

present instance, as a portion of an animal.

the spelling of words and the formation of animals and objects withtheir names, may be taught.

Under the term representation, I include words, pictures of animals,scenes, buildings and objects, or in fact any thing that can be placedin parts upon the leaves or sections 1 and completed by bringing theproper sections into co-relation.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. An educational device comprising a plurality of sections pivotedtogether by a common pivot and not connected with each other in any wayother than by the pivot, each section having thereon a letter of thealphabet and a pictorial representation designed to be indicated by saldletter.

2. An educational device comprising a plurality of sectionspivotedtogether at one end and each carrying a portion of an object and aletter of the alphabet, the letters and portions of objects being soarranged that when some of the sections have been brought together toform a complete object, the letters on these sections will spell thename of the object.

3. An educational device comprising a plurality of sections pivotedtogether at one end and each carrying upon one face a portion of anobject and on the other face a letter of the alphabet and a completeobject designed to be indicated by said letter, the portions of theobject and the letters being so arranged that when some of the sectionshave been brought together to s ell the name of the object the latterwil appear complete upon the reverse side of the sections thusassembled.

4. A device of the character described comprising a plurality ofsections pivoted together at one end and not connected with each otherin any way other than by said pivot, each section carrying a portion ofa representation, the sections being so arranged that they may be movedinto position to form a complete representation.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. BEVANS.

Witnesses:

W. H. BEVANS, KENNETH P. CLARKE.

